Who runs WPP

Members of the Board of Directors Board of Directors Non-executive chairman, chairman of the Nomination Philip Lader Non-executive chairman Age 62 Committee and member of the Compensation Committee Sir Martin Sorrell Philip Lader was appointed chairman in 2001. The US Chief executive Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from 1997 to 2001, Paul Richardson he previously served in several senior executive roles in the Finance director US Government, including as a Member of the President’s Chairman of the Corporate Responsibility Committee Cabinet and as White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Before entering government service, he was executive vice president Mark Read of the company managing the late Sir James Goldsmith’s Strategy director US holdings and president of both a prominent American Colin Day real estate company and universities in the US and Australia. Non-executive and member of the Audit Committee A lawyer, he is also a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley, a member of the Council of Lloyd’s (insurance market), Esther Dyson a director of RAND, Marathon Oil, Rusal, AES Corporations Non-executive and member of the Compensation Committee and Songbird Estates plc (Canary Wharf), a trustee of the Orit Gadiesh Smithsonian Museum of American History and a member Non-executive of the Council on Foreign Relations. David Komansky Sir Martin Sorrell Chief executive Age 63 Non-executive and member of the Nomination Committee Christopher Mackenzie Sir Martin Sorrell joined WPP in 1986 as a director, Non-executive and member of the Nomination Committee becoming Group chief executive in the same year. He is a Stanley (Bud) Morten non-executive director of Formula One [email protected] Non-executive: senior independent director and member of the Audit Committee Paul Richardson Finance director Age 50

Koichiro Naganuma Paul Richardson became Group finance director of WPP in Non-executive 1996 after four years with the Company as director of treasury. Lubna Olayan He is responsible for the Group’s worldwide functions in Non-executive finance, information technology, procurement, property, treasury, taxation, internal audit and corporate responsibility. John Quelch He is also the Country Manager for Italy. Non-executive Previously he spent six years with the central financial Jeffrey Rosen team of Hanson PLC. He is a chartered accountant and Non-executive: chairman of the Compensation Committee fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is a and member of the Audit Committee non-executive director of Chime Communications PLC Timothy Shriver and STW Communications Group Limited in Australia, Non-executive both of which are companies associated with the Group [email protected] Paul Spencer Non-executive: chairman of the Audit Committee Mark Read Strategy director Age 41

Members of the Advisory Board Mark Read was appointed a director in March 2005. He has been WPP’s director of strategy since 2002 and is also CEO Jeremy Bullmore of WPP Digital. He is a member of the Supervisory Board John Jackson of HighCo and a director of CHI & Partners. He worked at WPP between 1989 and 1995 in both parent company and Company Secretary operating company roles. Prior to rejoining WPP in 2002, he was a principal at the consultancy firm of Booz-Allen & Marie Capes Hamilton and founded and developed the company WebRewards in the UK [email protected]

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Colin Day Non-executive director Age 53 David H Komansky Non-executive director Age 68

Colin Day was appointed a director in July 2005. He is David Komansky was appointed a director in January 2003. group finance director of Reckitt Benckiser plc, having He was chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc, been appointed to its board in September 2000. Prior to serving until his retirement on 28 April 2003. He served as joining Reckitt Benckiser he was group finance director chief executive officer from 1996 to 2002, having begun his of Aegis Group plc and previously held a number of senior career at Merrill Lynch in 1968. finance positions with ABB Group plc and De La Rue Group Among many professional affiliations, he serves as plc. He was a non-executive director of Imperial Tobacco plc a director of Black Rock, Inc. and as a member of the until February 2007 and of easyJet plc until 30 September 2005. International Advisory Board of the British American Business Council. Active in many civic and charitable Esther Dyson Non-executive director Age 56 organisations, he serves on the Board of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. Esther Dyson was appointed a director in 1999. In 2004 she sold her company, EDventure Holdings, to CNET Networks, Christopher Mackenzie Non-executive director Age 53 the US-based interactive media company. She left CNET at the end of 2006 and now operates as an independent investor Christopher Mackenzie was appointed a director in 2000. and entrepreneur, again under the name of EDventure. She He is chairman and chief executive of the Equilibrium Group, has been highly influential for the past 25 years on the basis a London-based investor group and chairman of Borets, of her insights into online/information technology markets the Russian oil services group. He is also a board member of the and social impact worldwide, including the emerging markets Abdul Latif Jameel Group and KazMunaiGas Exploration & of Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. Production JSC. He served as the chief executive of Brunswick An active investor as well as an analyst/observer, she Capital in Russia, the president and chief executive officer of recently participated in the sale of Flickr to Yahoo! and of Trizec Properties and as the president of GE Capital Europe. Medstory to Microsoft. She sits on the boards of non-listed start-ups including 23andMe (US), Boxbe (US), Eventful.com Stanley (Bud) Morten Non-executive director Age 64 (US), Meetup Inc. (US), NewspaperDirect (Canada), CVO Group (Hungary) and Yandex (Russia). She is also an active Bud Morten was appointed a director in 1991. He is a investor in ‘new-space’ and aviation start-ups including Space consultant and private investor. He is currently the Independent Adventures, XCOR Aerospace, Icon Aircraft and Airship Consultant to Citigroup/Smith Barney with responsibility for Ventures (all based in the US) and co-hosts the annual Flight its independent research requirements. School workshop for air and space entrepreneurs. She sat on Previously he was the chief operating officer of Punk, the consumer advisory board of Orbitz until its sale to Ziegel & Co, a New York investment banking firm with a Cendant. She is also active in public affairs and was founding focus on the healthcare and technology industries. Before chairman of ICANN, the domain name policy agency, from that he was the managing director of the equity division of 1998 to 2000. She currently sits on the board of the Sunlight Wertheim Schroder & Co, Inc. in New York. He is a former Foundation, which advocates transparency in government non-executive director of Register.com, which was sold to and (among other things) is pushing US legislators to publish a private equity firm in November 2005 and is no longer a their daily diaries. public company. He is also a non-executive director of The Motley Fool, Inc., which is a private company. Orit Gadiesh Non-executive director Age 57 Koichiro Naganuma Non-executive director Age 63 Orit Gadiesh was appointed a director in April 2004. She is chairman of Bain & Company, Inc. and a world-renowned Koichiro Naganuma was appointed a director in February expert on management and corporate strategy. She holds an 2004. He is president and group chief executive officer of MBA from and was a Baker Scholar. Asatsu-DK, also known as ADK. Joining the agency in 1981, She is a member of the International Advisory Board at he began his career with the account service of global clients Haute Ecole Commerciale in France. She is a member of the in the agency. His mandate thereafter expanded to the total Foundation Board for the , and on operation of the group. the Board of Directors of The Peres Institute for Peace. She He replaced ADK Chairman Masao Inagaki on the is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee Board who retired upon the appointment of Mr Naganuma. for Eisenhower Fellowships and a member of the Business ADK is Japan’s third largest advertising and communications Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. company, and ninth largest in the world.

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Lubna Olayan Non-executive director Age 52 Timothy (Tim) Shriver Non-executive director Age 48

Lubna Olayan was appointed a director in March 2005. Tim Shriver was appointed a director in August 2007. He is Ms Olayan is the deputy chairman and chief executive officer Chairman of Special Olympics serving over 2 million Special of the Olayan Financing Company, a subsidiary and the holding Olympic athletes and their families in 170 countries. In recent entity for the Olayan Group’s operations in the Kingdom of years, he has produced films for Disney, Dream Works and Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Fox Searchlight and more recently, has begun writing a column Ms Olayan is a Board Member of Saudi Hollandi Bank, for The Washington Post/Newsweek.com. a publicly listed company in Saudi Arabia. She is on the He co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and currently chairs the Relations, a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD CASEL Board. He is a member of the Council on Foreign and a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University. Relations and is also a non-executive director of the National Ms Olayan joined the International Advisory Board of Rolls- Center for Learning & Citizenship, Malaria No More and Royce in October 2006 and of Citi in 2007. Neogenix. He serves on the advisory committee of Main Street Advisors and Leeds Equity. John Quelch Non-executive director Age 56 Paul Spencer Non-executive director Age 58 John Quelch was appointed a director in 1988. He is Senior Associate Dean and Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Paul Spencer was appointed a director in April 2004. He is a Administration at Harvard Business School. Between 1998 financier with 20 years’ experience in the financial management and 2001 he was Dean of the . He of a number of blue chip companies, including British Leyland also serves as chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority. PLC, Rolls-Royce PLC, Hanson PLC and Royal & Sun Professor Quelch’s writings focus on global business Alliance PLC. practice in emerging as well as developed markets, He served as UK chief executive of Royal & Sun Alliance international marketing and the role of the multinational PLC between 1999 and 2002. He is the chairman of State corporation and the nation state. He is a non-executive Street Managed Pension Funds Ltd. He is also chairman of director of Gentiva Health Services Inc, Inverness Medical the Association of Corporate Treasurers’ Advisory Board, Innovations, Inc. and Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. He served NS&I (National Savings), the UK government-owned retail previously on the boards of Blue Circle Industries plc, easyJet savings institution, and Sovereign Reversions Group plc. plc, Pentland Group plc and Reebok International Limited. He is also a non-executive director of Resolution Life Group plc and Nipponkoa. Jeffrey A. Rosen Non-executive director Age 60

Jeffrey Rosen was appointed a director in December 2004. He is a deputy chairman and managing director of Lazard. He has over 30 years’ experience in international investment banking and corporate finance. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is President of the Board of Trustees of the International Center of Photography in New York.

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